The Great Gatsby

by F Scott Fitzgerald
Subject: Classics
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The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald's glittering Jazz Age masterpiece.

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  • Paperback
    $12.95 RRP
    ISBN: 9780099541530
    Published: 01/03/2011
    Imprint: Vintage Classics
    Extent: 160 pages
  • Hardback
    $29.95 RRP
    ISBN: 9780099577720
    Published: 01/05/2013
    Imprint: Vintage Classics
    Extent: 256 pages
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    ISBN: 9781446418536
    Published: 01/03/2011
    Imprint: Vintage Digital
    Extent: 256 pages
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Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, Gatsby longs only for Daisy Buchanan. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion. The Great Gatsby is an elegiac and exquisite portrait of the American Dream.

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Apr 29

10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Great Gatsby

by Random House Australia on 29 April 2013

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Do you know what other famous book F. Scott Fitzgerald's editor published? Or how many film adaptions there has been of THE GREAT GATSBY? Find out now with our Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About THE GREAT GATSBY.

Jan 21

Random House Australia to Publish the Official Film Tie-In Edition of THE GREAT GATSBY in Australian cinemas May 30

by Random House Australia on 21 January 2013

Random House Australia to Publish the Official Film Tie-In Edition of THE GREAT GATSBY in Australian cinemas May 30 0 comments

Random House Australia will be the official publisher of THE GREAT GATSBY film tie-in edition. Director Baz Luhrmann’s spectacular cinematic adaptation of the F.Scott Fitzgerald classic will be released in Australia and New Zealand cinemas on May 30, 2013.

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"Gatsby is a connoisseur's guide to the glamour and glitter of the Jazz Age, but it's also a nearly prophetic glimpse into the world to come. Writing at the height of the boom, in the midst of the Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald detected the ephemerality, fakery and corruption always lurking at the heart of the great American success story... A haunting meditation on aspiration, disillusionment, romantic love - and a blistering exposé of the materialism, duplicity, and sexual politics driving what Fitzgerald calls America's true 'business': 'the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty'" - Sarah Churchwell,, The Times

"It is a marvellously suggestive novel...a parable of modern America, and by extension of modern life" - AN Wilson,, Daily Telegraph

"The first and greatest modern novel, it has beautiful women, lavish parties, romance, betrayal and murder woven together in an intricately structured plot. A prescient comment on the dying days of a gilded age that is brilliant entertainment with a very eloquent insight" - Mirror

"His masterpiece, an elegy for the American Dream, the greatest lost cause of them all" - Los Angeles Times

"His glorious prose captures ephemeral glamour magically" - Independent

"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings" - Ernest Hemingway

"Read it again, forever" - Boston Globe

"The Great Gatsby remains not just one of the greatest works of American literature, but a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth...a gilded society intoxicated by wealth, dancing its way into the Great Depression." - The Times

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